"Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating,……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms."
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Joyce Carol Oates
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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